Don Johnson

Born on Dec. 15, 1949 in Flat Creek, MO, Johnson was raised in Galena by his father, Wayne, a farmer, and his mother, Nell, a beautician who was only 16 at the time of his birth. After the family moved to Wichita, KS, where his father worked as a mechanic at an airplane factory, his parents divorced when he was 11. Though he lived with his mother for a time, Johnson began skipping school, shoplifting and hanging out with the fast crowd, which led to being declared incorrigible by the courts that eventually sent him to live with his father. Following a brush with the law for stealing a car, which led to a stint in reform school, Johnson finally found his footing at Wichita South High School, ... Continue Bio >>